Samuel Hooper was a businessman and member of Congress from Massachusetts.
12 Facts About Samuel Hooper
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Samuel Hooper's father, Robert Hooper, was a shipping merchant and later served as president of the Grand Bank of Marblehead.
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Samuel Hooper is known to have visited Cuba, Russia, and Spain.
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In 1832 Samuel Hooper married Ann Sturgis, daughter of William Sturgis, and he became a junior partner in the Boston firm of Bryant and Sturgis, merchants in the California hide trade, trade with the Pacific Northwest, and trade with China.
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In 1841, Samuel Hooper partnered with counting house owner and merchant shipper William Appleton to form William Appleton and Company.
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Samuel Hooper was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving from 1851 to 1853.
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Samuel Hooper later served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1858.
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Samuel Hooper was reelected to the following six congresses representing Massachusetts's fourth district and served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means 1869 to 1871, of the Committee on Banking and Currency from 1871 to 1873 and of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures from 1871 to 1875.
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Samuel Hooper turned down reelection to the 44th Congress and died less than a month before completion of his final term.
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Samuel Hooper was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in 1875.
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Samuel Hooper was briefly the father-in-law of Charles Sumner, a powerful senator from Massachusetts.
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In 1865 Samuel Hooper founded the Samuel Hooper School of Mining and Practical Geology at Harvard University with an endowment of $50,000.